As a brief aside from all the political news this week, let me say I'm not the most photogenic guy in the world - and we've all been photographed at certain times in our lives looking really stupid or silly. But I've just gotta take this moment to nominate Obama aide Cass "Barack Is a Minimalist" Sunstein for the "You're Trying Way Way Way Too Hard, Dude" Award for this New York Times photo:
Nothing betrays a desperation to look Serious and Smart and Contemplative than posing for a portrait by actually inserting the end of your glasses into your mouth.
Sorry to pick on you, Cass - but we get that you're brilliant and that you think you're brilliant and that you want everyone to know you're brilliant. But actually - maybe you aren't that brilliant, because in your desire to be photographed eating your glasses, you've let people know you THINK you're brilliant. How? C'mon - it's because you're trying way way way too hard, dude.
P.S. The previous co-winners of the "You're Trying Way Way Way Too Hard, Dude" award are James Carville and Paul Begala for the cover of their 2006 book, "Take It Back":
Arguably, the only thing that says you're trying way way way too hard more than posing for a photo by deliberately putting glasses in your mouth are two millionaire political consultants in Brooks Brothers country club wear trying to look mean and tough by scowling into a camera a la Rick Mahorn. It sorta calls into question their guru status as political imagemakers - the first thing you never want to do in that business is look like you're trying way way way too hard.
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